Construction of wheels for road vehicles



' A I 1,624171 Alm] ,12' 1927' G. TURNER ET AL CONSTRUCTION 0F WHEELS FOR ROAD VEHICLES Filed Ju'lir 27. 1923 lli A /NvENfoRs l 6 ma y Jose/0E f' 131m isbbp.

l 3i I I I n @y mit' Par if) provide that they `may be easily replaced strengthening and protecting said tongues 175 described With reference to the drawings achaveV their'vvood'grain at right angles to the 20 constructed according to theseimprovements In a Wheel having a rim comprising y versely of the rim and of Wood of grain runvGEORG-AE` TURNER.

.Patented Apr. 12, 1927. i y 4 l' E y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. y GEORGE TURNER, OF'APARRAilVIAlITA, NEAR SYDNEY-i, AND JOSEPH ELDRED BISHOP,

f OF MOSYMAN, NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES,'AUSTRALIA.

ooNsTvRucTroN F WHEELS Fon ROAD VEHICLES.

Application led Ju1y 27,11923,Sera1 No. 654,13'7La`nd in Australia March 26, 1923.

This invention refers to Wooden Wheels boundtogether by dovvels l0 and so kept for road vehicles and relates particularly to in place'on said band 7 While further a those which carry heavy loads and so 're- Inetal band 11 in Whole for contact as a quiring Wide tyres and it has been'specially tyre With the road or a Way or asl a rim 'devised that Wide felloes with grain of the for a resilient shoe is shrunk over saidv Wood approximately at right angles to the felloes keying them` firmly in position. 'lo -face of the Wheel can be used and this With- Though it is preferred otherwise short out any or littlepossibility of the splitting thimbles l2 bedded in the felloes may be Y, Where they overhang the spokes and further placedaround the spoke tongues 5 for y when necessary by others.l y and the spokes against unduestrain and if L ButV in order that this invention maybe desired said thimbles might be integralwith more clearly understood and readilycarried one Vor other of the bands 7 and 11. A1- into practical effect the same will now be thoughthe felloes l9 shown in the drawings companying and forming part of this corn-v Wheel face they might be of ordinary savvn 50 plete specification. Fig. 1' is a. part secor bent construction.

y tional 'front elevation and Fig. 2 ya part VVVhat-We claim as our invention and demedial sectional plan respectively of a wheel sire to secure by Letters Patent is While Fig. 8 is an enlarged part sectional elea series'of felloes of a definite circumferen- 55 `vation through the rim of same. tial Width adapted to receive the spokes of The Wheel is constructed of a plurality of the Wheel and a. plurality of felloes of a' spokes 4 arranged radially and keyed torelatively smaller circumferential Width disgether centrally to form the Wheel and `posed intermediate. each pair' ofthe said Whose outer ends each have reduced part or spoke receiving felloes; a longitudinally eX- 60 tongue 5 shouldered on a flat circular metal tending groove'formed in the opposite radiring 7 as a band or in sections Vand passing 5 allyV extending sides of each of lsaid felloes; through though fitting an orifice 6 in said and a strip fitted Within the adjacently posiband and an orifice in the vfelloes Q'Ythewhole tioned groovesrrofthe adjacent fello'es. x Y

' forming the lrim of said Wheel. These fel- Intestimonygvhereof We have signed our 65 loes 9 being short radially and long trans-` names to this specification.

ning across the face of ,the Wheel Arim `are"` JOSEPH ELDRED BISHOP. 

